Chance me at these schools: Computer Science Major

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey guys, I’m planning on becoming a computer science major and need your advice. I’m planning on applying to UC Berkeley, Purdue, UCLA, UC San Diego, Cornell and UIUC (Sorry, there are quite a few!). Can you chance me at these schools?

My School is in the top 50s for best schools in California. Rankings are not given
Asian, Male
Languages: English, Korean, Took 3 years of Spanish in High School

Here are my high school activities:

GPA:
Unweighted GPA: 3.80 (I know its kinda low)
Weighted GPA for UC’s : 4.36
Weighted GPA for out of state schools: 4.26

Standardized exams:

ACT: 33, STEM Score is 35 (Math = 36, Science = 34), but my English score is low because English is my second language
SAT 2 Math - 800
SAT 2 Chemistry - 740 (Not turning it in)
SAT 2 Korean - 790 (Oops :stuck_out_tongue: )
SAT 2 Biology - 770

Ap’s and Honors (1st semester grade/2nd semester grade)

  1. Honors Precalculus - A / A
  2. Honors Chemistry - A / A
  3. Honors Algebra 2 - A / A
  4. Honors Freshman English - A / A-
  5. Honors Sophomore English - B+ / A-
  6. Ap Chemistry - A / A-
  7. Ap Computer science - B+ / A-
  8. Ap Us History - A / A
  9. Ap Statistics A- / A-
  10. Ap Biology B+ / A-
  11. Ap Language Arts - B / B (English is my second language)
  12. Ap Calculus BC - A- / A-
  13. Ap Psychology A / A-

Since UC does not look at Senior year GPA, I will not include them, but I took 4 Ap’s and 2 regular classes

Ap Scores:

  1. Ap Stats - 5
  2. Ap Chemistry - 4
  3. Ap Language Arts - 4
  4. Ap Calculus BC - 5
  5. Ap Computer Science - 5
  6. Ap Psychology - 5
  7. Ap Biology - 4

Extra Curricular:

  1. ACE Coding club - 4 years, treasurer and president position (50 hours of volunteering, teaching middle school students)
  2. Competitive Coding Club - 3 years, treasurer
  3. Game Design Club - 3 years, Teaching Director and President
  4. Liberty to North Korea Club - 2 years, Website Developing/Tech Director
  5. Tennis - 4 years (1 year in Junior varsity, 3 years in Varsity)
  6. Worked at a community tennis park for 3 years, promoted to highest student ranking (Gold)
  7. 250 hours of Volunteering at Chabot Space and Science Center, Internship position
  8. Bebo - worked with a company to launch a successful App on the app store and google play store, Built a server for my high school
  9. Badminton Club - 4 years
  10. With the money earned from teaching tennis, replaced old tennis equipment for the tennis team
  11. Hosted a Hackathon, and participated in many hackathons. 1st place in Game Design and 3rd in Website Design
  12. Part of 2 internships. 1 is a research program (unpaid), the other is building a website for the county(paid).
  13. Science Team for 2 years, went to states competition for Game Coding
  14. Created a science experiment that was presented to other children at a museum.

There are 2 more internships related to computer science I am waiting to hear back from. Doubt that I got in because they are amazing programs.

Please Chance me On this! Any comments will be helpful :slight_smile: Thank you in advanced!!!

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Also, I have published 4 games on the Android Play Store. They total up to about 70 downloads. Please chance me. If you chance me and want me to chance you, put the link on the comment, and I will be more than happy to chance you :slight_smile:

Thank you!

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Another update (Sorry, this will be the last one). My Weighted GPA for UC’s is 4.407, and my unweighted GPA is 3.78. Sorry!

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What is your UC weighted and capped GPA (capped to 8 semesters’ worth of honors/AP +1 points)? It is hard to believe that it is 4.407 with an unweighted GPA of 3.78, unless the latter includes lower grades only in 9th grade.

Anyway, for UCs, see http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1903428-faq-uc-historical-frosh-admit-rates-by-hs-gpa.html for past admission rates by HS GPA (UC weighted and capped), but you should expect direct admission to any CS major (e.g. UCB EECS, UCLA CS, UCSD CSE) to be more difficult than the campus overall.

Note that UCSD and UIUC may admit you to a second choice major or undeclared if they consider you admissible to the campus but not the CS/CSE major. But enrolling and then trying to change into CS/CSE can be very difficult (e.g. last two quarters, the college GPA threshold to change into UCSD CSE was 4.0 and 3.9).

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Oh, I did not know that there was a UC capped GPA. I believe that my UC capped GPA is 4.08. Is this too low?

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And that grade excludes senior year grades :slight_smile:

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With a 4.08 GPA, UCB and UCLA will be reaches (12% and 14% admit rates for 2015 – more difficult if you apply for UCB EECS and UCLA CS). UCSD had a 39% admit rate for your GPA range in 2015, but CSE is an extremely impacted major, so you should consider it a reach for getting into the CSE major there.